[€uroMeinke]

I enjoyed it. GD did a great job capturing a lot of the film, but I'd add the homages to Un Chien Andelou (sp?) (ants crawling on the hands, animals emerging from wounds, the eye imagery, etc.) which puts it squarely in the surrealist camp for me.

I also enjoy the playing around with symbols - the Tarot elements, the planets ( and the bit of gender-bending reversing the some of the traditional sexes of those rolls) I think they was also some play on the Enneagram (which I believe have their origin in Christian and Sufi mysticism by way of Gurjieff) since that was the prominant symbol of "the master."

All in all a spiritual quest film, which ultimately satirizes traditional spiritualism. There's lots also to say about the closing scene and the "immortality" actually obtained by the questors.

But I'm a sucker for mystical symbolism.

I think this would pair nicely with some Felini

I don't get the sleep deprivation criticism - long held practice of mystics, I'll vouch that the hallucinations obtained through these means give the chemically induced ones a run for the money. But surrealism isn't necessarily about altered states of consciousness, rather about altered states of reality.

In any case, the Haunting should be a hoot.